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Badminton & Tennis

1. Tennis are made up of mostly sideways movement. Badminton will get you moving mostly forward and backwards.

2. Tennis balls can be reused until the air inside it disappears. Shuttlecocks are often 'destroyed' in a single session.

3. Your score 'four' points in a (normal) single tennis set to win. Your score 15 points to win a (normal) set in badminton.

4. A tennis ball can bounce once on the ground before it must be hit over the net. A shuttle cannot touch the ground at any given time.

5. You have a second chance to serve in tennis if the first done is a fault. You only serve once in badminton unless you play doubles.

6. Tennis racquets can take 40lbs of string tension. Do that to a badminton racquet and you'll hear it crack and your wallet bursting into fire.

7. Tennis is played on grass at the lovely courts of Wimbledon during summer. Try doing that with badminton and you'll trip.

8. You always serve from behind the baseline in tennis. In badminton, you always serve in front of the baseline.

9. You serve in tennis (usually) by hammering the ball to the ground on the other side of the net. Do that with a shuttle and you gain yourself a fault in badminton. (Not to mention puzzled glances from people around you)

10. Some prefer two handed backhand shots for more power in tennis. Absolutely nobody holds a racquet with both hands in badminton.

Similarities in tennis and badminton

1. Both game uses raqcuets.

2. Both games uses nets stretched across courts.

3. Yonex

4. Both games have men's and women's singles, doubles and mixed events.

5. Both are contested as medal events in the Olympics.

6. The biggest events are played in England - Wimbledon for tennis, All-England for badminton. (Ok, AE is not the biggest compared to the WC but it's highly prestigious, nonetheless)

7. You 'shake hands' with the racquet when you hold it.

8. Up to 4 people can play badminton or tennis in a single court at a given time.

9. We have badminton and tennis fanatics all over the globe.

10. Both have racquet strings of a variety of colours. (Ok, I was running out of ideas).

Re: okay similarities

Originally posted by badrad

Here's one for controversy - more hot chicks play tennis in hot outfits. Hot badminton chicks are rare and there's no such thing as a hot badminton outfit....

Now, now you're going to get us into trouble again ;P But from the hot players thread find Carola Bott's grey number, and on the next page her white singlet/bike shorts number, admittedly I'm not sure as to whether they meet the clothing requirements but hey ;Phttp://www.badmintonforum.com/vb/sho...t&pagenumber=2

Once I said to a tennis coach I didn't like to pick up the balls. The reply was "it's part of the game". Must be part of my dry humour to think "tennis pro's don't pick up the tennis balls". Badminton pro's almost always pick up the shuttles.

Olympic

Playing in Olympic for tennis elites are night mare - no ranking pts, no attractive prize, pride of nationality... hmmm... , easy chance of injury --> quit if u can.

Playing in Olympic for badminton elites are an ultimate goal - fight as hard as u can, and one of the most important mark in ur resume + reasonable prize + rare medals for Olympic "minority forces" (Malaysia, Indonesia, etc)